Technology industry is one of the most unpredictable industries. Some companies become billionaire overnight and some established ones, come to verge of closing. Some products become instant hit with consumers and some seasoned products lose their shine instantly. So here are our 5 tech predictions for this unpredictable market for the year 2012.

This is the second in a three-part series on Operating Systems that power a Smartphone. In Part 1, we focussed on introducing the concept of a Smartphone in general and identifying a couple of operating systems like iOS, Android and Windows Mobile. Here we talk about other operating systems such as Blackberry, Bada, Maemo, Symbian and WebOS.

Do you remember your first mobile phone? I definitely do, with every detail intact! Also, I remember reading about phones which work like handheld computers, the Smart Phones and how I longed to own one, someday.

Anyhow, the smartphones are here! And almost everyone of us, is well informed of the latest mobile devices available on the shelf. Of course, the number of smartphones available at present is huge. The factor which has always kept me curious is that these phones are well complimented by a large variety of Operating systems.